A
LETTER
FROM
Doctor Dalgleish to his Patient Mrs.
McLeod, and her Answer.
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MLeod, you vild Adulterous Jad,
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Think you my Service is so bad,
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That ye think shame to ca' me Master
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You filthy Drunken Warld's Waster,
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Mrs. ye're come to be a Patien
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To the best Doctor in this Nation,
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And if that you his Name wad kno
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Into this Town he's Lord Provo,
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So Mrs. tell me your Disease,
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And in short Time I will you ease.
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McLeod.
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John I'll tell you without e're frolick,
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I'm troubled with a Horn Colick,
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So if Relief you dina send me,
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I beleave the Colick, it will end me,
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Likewise my Neck is turned Yockie,
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Can you Cure that you Devl's Buckie.
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John.
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Yes by my Faith and that I can,
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As well as any Mortal Man,
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For I'm a Doctor ev'n as good,
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As ever was since Noahs Flood,
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For I took never one in Hand,
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But what I cur'd in this Land,
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Except it was I'll hanged Megg,
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Whom I am sure, I did well fleg,
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Let your Disease be what it will,
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You Whore, I have both Art and Skill,
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If it fall, you ha'e the Pox,
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Of my fam'd Pills yes get a Box,
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Or if that you be for the Floe,
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A Box of Mercury ye's get too.
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McLeod.
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Doctor a Folks says that y'll wrang me,
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For you'r Main Cure it is to hang me.
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John.
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Mrs. upo' my Faith and Truth,
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For to Hang you I wad be loath.
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McLeod.
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John y're nought but a cheating Carlie,
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For if you cou'd, you'd hang me fairlie,
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I soon may get a better Spoks-man,
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Than him that is the City's Locks-man.
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John.
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Mrs I pray, let be your Canting,
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For your harsh Language, I'm no wanting.
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McLeod.
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John you're nathing but a Fumbler,
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And at your Trade a perfet Bumbler,
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For you late an wi' Life awa,
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My Sister Megg in Fisherae.
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John.
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At this the Doctor stood bumbaz'd,
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And he upon his Patient Gaz'd.
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And Ca'd her base B---h Whore and
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Limmer,
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And said when she came to his Timber,
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That he twa Hours wad gar her Hing,
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And mair into a well Crish't String.
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There you shall hing till you be dead,
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And your two Eyes turn in you'r Head.
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